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Jake Holmes
Jake Holmes (born December 28, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter and jingle writer who began a recording career in the 1960s. Holmes is the author of the song " Dazed and Confused", later reworked by Led Zeppelin. Holmes also composed the music to the US Army recruitment jingle "Be All That You Can Be" in the 1980s. The jingle and subsequent advertising campaign was used extensively by the US government throughout the 1980s. Holmes also wrote the "I'm A Pepper" jingle, and with Randy Newman co-wrote the "Most Original Soft Drink Ever" jingle for the Dr Pepper soft drink. Career Holmes' first musical foray was with his wife Katherine in the folk pop parody duo, Allen & Grier. Following military service, he resumed his music career. Among the highlights: Holmes put lyrics to Bob Gaudio's music on The Four Seasons' 1969 '' Genuine Imitation Life Gazette'' album, after which the pair went on to compose Frank Sinatra's 1970 ''Watertown'' album. Coming during a relative low ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folk Music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music about cultural or national identity, music that changes between generations (folk process), music associated with a people's folklore, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that. Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), known professionally as Nina Simone (), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, and pop. The sixth of eight children born from a poor family in Tryon, North Carolina, Simone initially aspired to be a concert pianist. With the help of a few supporters in her hometown, she enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. She then applied for a scholarship to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where, despite a well received audition, she was denied admission,Liz Garbus, 2015 documentary film, ''What Happened, Miss Simone?'' which she attributed to racism. In 2003, just days before her death, the Institute awarded her an honorary degree. To make a living, Simone started playing piano at a nightclub in Atlantic City. She changed her name to "Nina Simone" to disguise herself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Schneider
Helen Schneider (born December 23, 1952) is an American singer and actress working mainly in Germany. Life and career Helen Leslie Schneider was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of Dvora and Abraham Schneider. Schneider studied piano before forming her own blues band and playing in venues throughout New England and New York. She's had a varied career in music, theater, recording, literature and film. Between 1978 and 1984, she achieved success as a rock singer in Germany; her song "Rock 'n' Roll Gypsy" reached the top 10 record charts and she received a Gold Record Award and shared the Goldene Europa Award with John Lennon. In 1980 she toured with the German rock legend Udo Lindenberg. She played one of the leads in the 1983 film ''Eddie and the Cruisers'', which has since gained a huge cult following, especially in Germany, where Schneider has name recognition. In 1987, she began her theater career at the Theater des Westens in Berlin playing ''Sally Bowle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Evening With Harry Belafonte And Friends
''An Evening with Harry Belafonte and Friends'' is a live album by Harry Belafonte, released in 1997. Allmusic entry for ''An Evening with Harry Belafonte and Friends''Retrieved November 2009. The album is the soundtrack of a concert, televised by PBS in March 1997. It was also released as a concert video. In 2003 the concert video was also released on DVD. Track listing # "We Are the Wave" (Jake Holmes, Richard Cummings, The Soul Brothers) – 3:52 # "Turn the World Around" (Harry Belafonte, Robert Freedman) – 6:14 # "Island in the Sun" (Lord Burgess, Harry Belafonte) – 4:36 # "Skin to Skin" (Holmes, Godfrey Nelson) – 4:44 # "Kwela (Listen to the Man)" (Holmes, S. M. Nkabinda) – 5:33 # "Eyala" (Richard Bona) – 3:46 # "Matilda" ( Norman Span) – 9:50 # "Dangerous Times" (Holmes) – 4:50 # "Try to Remember" ( Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt) – 4:29 # "Paradise in Gazankulu" (Holmes, Oben Ngobeni) – 7:15 # "Eyando" (Bona) – 3:02 #"Jamaica Farewell" (Burgess) – 6:44 #"Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belafonte '89
''Belafonte '89'' is a live album by Harry Belafonte, released in 1989. Allmusic entry for ''Belafonte '89'' Retrieved November 2009. A truncated version of the album was released in the U.S., featuring only 10 out of 15 tracks. The international CD release was also truncated, featuring 13 tracks. It was also released in Germany as ''Stationen'' in 1990, and 1993. The CD release of ''Stationen'' from 1990 contains all 15 tracks. Track listing # "The Wave" (Jake Holmes, Richard Cummings, The Soul Brothers) – 4:20 # "Kwela" (Holmes, S. M. Nkabinda) – 6:36 # "Island In The Sun" (Lord Burgess, Harry Belafonte) – 5:04 # "Skin to Skin" (Holmes, Godfrey Nelson) – 4:50 # "Paradise in Gazankulu" (Holmes, Oben Ngobeni) – 8:30 # "Jamaica Farewell" (Burgess) – 5:49 # "Try To Remember" ( Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt) – 4:36 # "Sing for the Song" (Bob Gibson) – 4:20 # "Matilda" (Thomas) – 8:46 # "Martin Luther King" (Holmes) – 6:46 # "Global Carnival" (Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradise In Gazankulu
''Paradise in Gazankulu'' is album by Harry Belafonte, released by EMI Records in 1988. It was his final studio album, prior to his death in 2023. The album deals with the plight of black South Africans under the Apartheid system.The Guide to United States Popular Culture William Labov, Ray Broadus Browne, Pat Browne - 2001 - Page 78 "Belafonte focused consistent attention on the racist apartheid system in South Africa; in 1988 he issued an album about the South Africa system, Paradise in Gazankulu." The album was re-released as an official mp3 download by amazon.com, and iTunes in the U.K. in 2010. Track listing # "We Are the Wave" (Jake Holmes, Richard Cummings, The Soul Brothers) – 3:32 # "Paradise in Gazankulu" (Holmes, Oben Ngobeni) – 4:27 # "Skin to Skin" (Holmes, Godfrey Nelson) – 4:25 # "Amandla" (Holmes, D. Zuma) – 4:05 # "Kwela (Listen To The Man)" (Holmes, S. M. Nkabinda) – 4:00 # "Monday to Monday" (Holmes, Zuma, R. Klaas) – 4:14 # "Global Carnival" (Holme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loving You Is Where I Belong
''Loving You is Where I Belong'' is an album by Harry Belafonte, released in 1981. Allmusic entry for ''Loving You is Where I Belong''Retrieved November 2009. Track listing # "Something to Hold Onto" (Gene Pistilli, Walter Murphy) – 3:55 # "Mary Makes Magic" ( Hoyt Axton) – 5:58 # " The Rose" ( Amanda McBroom) – 4:20 # "I Told You" (Jake Holmes) – 4:05 # " Streets of London" (Ralph McTell) – 5:03 # "Loving You is Where I Belong" (Steven Marc Cristol) – 4:25 # " Forever Young / Jabulani" (Bob Dylan / Caiphus Semenya, Harry Belafonte) – 4:16 # "I Don't Need Her" (Holmes) – 5:03 # "Did You Know" (Holmes) – 3:44 # "Genuine Imitation Life" (Holmes) – 4:35 #:1989 cd reissue bonus tracks: # "Marching To The Fair" (Morris Goldberg, Shunmugan Pillay) – 5:44 # "Sunbird" (Pat Rosalia, Robert McKinnon) – 4:05 Personnel * Harry Belafonte – vocals * Jay Berliner – guitar * Gene Bertoncini – guitar * Don Brooks – harmonica * Hiram Bullock Hiram Law Bullo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Play Me (album)
''Play Me'' is an album by Harry Belafonte, released in 1973. It would be his final studio album for RCA Records and his last studio album until 1977's ''Turn the World Around'' released by Columbia Records. Allmusic entry for ''Play Me''Retrieved November 2009. Track listing # "Play Me" (Neil Diamond) – 4:07 # " And I Love You So" (Don McLean) – 4:37 #*Guitar solo by David Spinozza # "Mr. Wiffen" (D. Wiffen) – 3:30 # "If Only It Were Yesterday" (G. Sklerov) – 4:38 #*Guitar solo by David Spinozza # "So Close" (Jake Holmes) – 4:09 #*Duet with Eloise Laws # "Empty Chairs" (Don McLean) – 5:17 #*Guitar solo by Jay Berliner # "Morningside (For the Children)" (Neil Diamond) – 4:11 #*Children's Chorus: The Meri Mini Players # "My Old Man" (Jerry Jeff Walker) – 4:31 # "One Step" (K. Dunman) – 3:40 # " Long Long Time" (G. White) – 5:13 #*Duet with Eloise Laws Personnel *Harry Belafonte – vocals *Eloise Laws – vocals on "So Close" and "Long Long Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Warm Touch
''The Warm Touch'' is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Records in 1971. Allmusic entry for ''The Warm Touch''Retrieved November 2009. Track listing # "Something in the Way She Moves" (James Taylor) – 3:10 # "Circle 'Round the Sun" (James Taylor) – 3:15 # "The Paris Song" (Jake Holmes) – 3:19 # "Louise" (Valentine Pringle) – 3:50 # " No Regrets" (Tom Rush) – 3:41 # "Cycles" (Gayle Caldwell) – 4:07 # " The Circle Game" ( Joni Mitchell) – 4:07 # "Her Song" (Jake Holmes) – 3:45 # "Rainy Day Man" (James Taylor) – 3:32 # "Fare Thee Well" (Traditional, Fred Brooks) – 3:26 Personnel *Harry Belafonte – vocals *Arranged and conducted by William Eaton (2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10) *Arranged and conducted by Robert Freedman (1, 3, 6, 8) Production notes: *Jack Pleis Jack K. Pleis (May 11, 1917 – December 5, 1990) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, conductor, composer and producer. He recorded on London and Decca Records in the 1950s, and Columbia Records in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry & Lena
''Harry & Lena'' is a 1970 studio album issued by RCA Records by Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne. In 1970, Belafonte Enterprises produced an ABC television special featuring Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne. The hour special titled ''Harry & Lena, For The Love Of Life'' was broadcast on March 22, 1970, featuring solo and duet performances. Fabergé, sponsor of both the program and this studio recording of songs featured and performed in the television special, issued as a limited collectors edition. Originally, the album was available only by mail order and not sold in record stores. Track listing #" Walk a Mile in My Shoes" (Joe South) Duet Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne #"My Old Man" (Jerry Jeff Walker) Harry Belafonte #"It's Always Somewhere Else" (Jake Holmes) Lena Horne #"In My Life" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) Lena Horne #"The Ghetto" (Homer Banks, Bettye Crutcher, Bonnie Bramlett) Harry Belafonte #"Brown Baby" (Oscar Brown, Jr.) Lena Horne #"Down on the Corner" (John Fogert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927) is an American singer, activist, and actor. As arguably the most successful Jamaican-American pop star, he popularized the Trinbagonian Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. His breakthrough album '' Calypso'' (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Belafonte is best known for his recordings of "The Banana Boat Song", with its signature "Day-O" lyric, " Jump in the Line", and " Jamaica Farewell". He has recorded and performed in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. He has also starred in several films, including ''Carmen Jones'' (1954), '' Island in the Sun'' (1957), and ''Odds Against Tomorrow'' (1959). Belafonte considered the actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson a mentor, and was a close confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. As he later recalled, "Paul Robes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
